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Common random fixed points of compatible random operators
We construct a random iteration scheme and study necessary conditions for its convergence to a common random fixed point of two pairs of compatible random operators satisfying Meir-Keeler type conditions in Polish spaces. Some random fixed point theorems for weakly compatible random operators under generalized contractive conditions in the framework of symmetric spaces are also proved
Minimal Flavor Protection: A New Flavor Paradigm in Warped Models
We propose a new flavor paradigm for models with warped extra dimensions. The
idea is to impose the minimal amount of flavor protection to make warped models
compatible with all current flavor and electroweak precision constraints. We
discuss a particular realization of this minimal flavor protection in the quark
sector, by means of a flavor symmetry acting on the right handed down sector.
Hierarchical quark masses and mixing angles are naturally reproduced through
wave function localization, and flavor violating processes are predicted, in
the absence of large brane kinetic terms for the right handed down quarks,
below but not too far from current experimental limits in several channels.
With this new flavor pattern, models with warped extra dimensions can be
accessible through direct production of new resonances at the LHC and also
through precision flavor experiments.Comment: 9 pages; v2 11 pages, extended discussion including the effect of
brane kinetic terms, matches published versio
The simplest causal inequalities and their violation
In a scenario where two parties share, act on and exchange some physical
resource, the assumption that the parties' actions are ordered according to a
definite causal structure yields constraints on the possible correlations that
can be established. We show that the set of correlations that are compatible
with a definite causal order forms a polytope, whose facets define causal
inequalities. We fully characterize this causal polytope in the simplest case
of bipartite correlations with binary inputs and outputs. We find two families
of nonequivalent causal inequalities; both can be violated in the recently
introduced framework of process matrices, which extends the standard quantum
formalism by relaxing the implicit assumption of a fixed causal structure. Our
work paves the way to a more systematic investigation of causal inequalities in
a theory-independent way, and of their violation within the framework of
process matrices.Comment: 7 + 4 pages, 2 figure
Status of background-independent coarse-graining in tensor models for quantum gravity
A background-independent route towards a universal continuum limit in
discrete models of quantum gravity proceeds through a background-independent
form of coarse graining. This review provides a pedagogical introduction to the
conceptual ideas underlying the use of the number of degrees of freedom as a
scale for a Renormalization Group flow. We focus on tensor models, for which we
explain how the tensor size serves as the scale for a background-independent
coarse-graining flow. This flow provides a new probe of a universal continuum
limit in tensor models. We review the development and setup of this tool and
summarize results in the 2- and 3-dimensional case. Moreover, we provide a
step-by-step guide to the practical implementation of these ideas and tools by
deriving the flow of couplings in a rank-4-tensor model. We discuss the
phenomenon of dimensional reduction in these models and find tentative first
hints for an interacting fixed point with potential relevance for the continuum
limit in four-dimensional quantum gravity.Comment: 28 pages, Review prepared for the special issue "Progress in Group
Field Theory and Related Quantum Gravity Formalisms" in "Universe
Smoothness of Correlations in the Anderson Model at Strong Disorder
We study the higher-order correlation functions of covariant families of
observables associated with random Schr\"odinger operators on the lattice in
the strong disorder regime. We prove that if the distribution of the random
variables has a density analytic in a strip about the real axis, then these
correlation functions are analytic functions of the energy outside of the
planes corresponding to coincident energies. In particular, this implies the
analyticity of the density of states, and of the current-current correlation
function outside of the diagonal. Consequently, this proves that the
current-current correlation function has an analytic density outside of the
diagonal at strong disorder
Languages of Quantum Information Theory
This note will introduce some notation and definitions for information
theoretic quantities in the context of quantum systems, such as (conditional)
entropy and (conditional) mutual information. We will employ the natural
C*-algebra formalism, and it turns out that one has an allover dualism of
language: we can define everything for (compatible) observables, but also for
(compatible) C*-subalgebras. The two approaches are unified in the formalism of
quantum operations, and they are connected by a very satisfying inequality,
generalizing the well known Holevo bound. Then we turn to communication via
(discrete memoryless) quantum channels: we formulate the Fano inequality, bound
the capacity region of quantum multiway channels, and comment on the quantum
broadcast channel.Comment: 16 pages, REVTEX, typos corrected, references added and extende
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